OFF-SEASON OBS - LOCH GARTEN - September 2019-February 2020

I'm trying to remember who holds the record for the highest number of cresties captured in a single frame. Bet it's scylla. I had to look up the issue about peanuts not being nuts. Here's a couple of shots, one with a legume-morsel. Everyday's a school day.

(c) RSPB Loch Garten

Opened a 6-hour clip starting on the morning of 17th @ 09:23, and look who was there waiting!  Can't get away from them :o

A pale Blue Tit:

That's a sharp little beak:

I was thinking all along how low-profile the GSWs had been, and then!

Last to the feeder on the 17th:

I notice there are still plenty of visitors :)

best cresties yet and gorgeous others, many thank Scylla

Thank you MC. I tried to get the GSW yesterday but it would not pose for me!

Great capture with the peanut, KORKY! :)  Re the legumes - I wouldn't have mentioned it but we have stickler lurkers, you never know when they might pounce ;)  (As if I don't give them plenty of opportunities ;) )

Glad to be of service, MIKE, and I was just thinking about you a few moments ago!

Here's a silly question - why do GSW's beaks look so chalky?  They often spoil snaps, I shall have to have a word with Nature ;)

18th - "Let's just do first and last", thinks me to myself.

First:

Couldn't help thinking "why no chaffies yesterday and today" and then one turned up!  Heralding quite a few more.  So this broke the rule.

Last, you guess it, was a Crested Tit.  This over-long vid shows its indecisive behaviour:

Accidentally omitted and now can't remember if it was 17th or 18th:

First in this morning - spot the Crestie!  (It did come around the other side but looked as tho it was behind a smudge on the lens.)

It flew off and one minute later it (or one like it) came back at daycam:

Pretty darn sweet, even with a budding cauliflower ear:

I think that fellow has had a bit of a bad blow dry!!!